The Impact of HELE in the Lives of the Filipino People

Filipino-Western Relationships.
Available@: http://www.western-asian.com/cleanliness-of-pinoys.[Accessed 16 March 2010].




Filipinos are generally clean people.Every Filipino child is trained from his early years to keep his person clean. At home and in school, children are taught of maintaining cleanliness at all times.

One of the subjects being taught in school is Home Economics and Livelihood Education (H.E.L.E.) where girls are being trained early on to do household work making them capable of keeping house clean and tidy even when parents are away. To Filipinos the degree of cleanliness of your surroundings reflects on the kind of person you are. o everyone tries to make their houses and yards clean to avoid people seeing them in a negative light. Mothers teaches their childrenat all times. diligently about personal hygiene, menstruation and the proper way of keeping their bodies clean

In this manner, we can say that the HELE subject has a great impact in the lives of the Filipino people. At a very early age, school children are taught to clean their surroundings and even themselves. Although considered by some as very small and simple things cauht by the students at school, yet we cannot deny the fact the it greatly helps on the development of thexe children And if these things were done habitually and regularly, these will serve as part of their practice. And this practice is definitely very plausible.